POLICY TITLE: Conflict Of Interest POLICY NO:

201.30
Minidoka County Joint School District # 331 PAGE 1 of 2

A TRUSTEE MAY NOT:

1. Use the trustee’s official power to further the trustee’s own interest;

2. Have a pecuniary interest directly or indirectly (except a remote interest) in any contract
or other transaction pertaining to the maintenance or conduct of the school district. A
“remote interest” means:
• The trustee is a non-salaried employee of a nonprofit corporation; or
• The trustee is an employee or agent of a contracting party where the
compensation of the trustee or agent consists entirely of fixed wages or salary; or
• The trustee is a landlord or tenant of a contracting party; or
• The trustee is a holder of less than one percent (1%) of the shares of a corporation
or cooperative contracting party; AND
• The trustee discloses such remote interest to the Board of Trustees.

3. Accept any reward or compensation for services rendered as a trustee except as expressly
provided by law;

4. Accept and award contracts involving the school district to businesses in which a trustee
or person related to him by blood or marriage within the second degree has a direct or
indirect interest except when the procedures set forth in §§ 18-1361 or 1861A are
followed;

5. Be involved in the election of a relative related by affinity or consanguinity within the

second degree and shall be absent from the meeting while such employment is being
considered and/or determined;

6. Enter into a contract in the trustee’s individual capacity, the effect of which is to create a
personal interest which may conflict with the officer’s public duty;

7. Enter into a contract with the trustee’s district;

8. Accept a bribe in the way for money, a promise, gift or any other form of personal
advantage engage in a substantial financial transaction for the trustee’s private business
purpose with a person whom the trustee inspects or supervises in the course of official
duties;

9. Be a purchaser or vendor at any sale or purchase made by the trustee in the trustee’s
official capacity;

10. Use public funds or property to obtain a pecuniary benefit to himself;

11. Solicit, accept or receive a pecuniary benefit as payment for services, advice, assistance
or conduct customarily exercised in the course of the trustee’s official business;

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12. Use or disclose confidential information gained in the course of or by reason of the
trustee’s position or activities in any manner with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit
for the trustee or any other person or entity in whose welfare the trustee is interested or
with the intent to harm the District.

13. Appoint or vote for the appointment of any person related to him by blood or marriage
within the second degree to any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty, when the
salary, wages, pay or compensation of such appointee is to be paid out of public funds or
fees of office, or appointment or furnish employment to any person whose salary, wages,
pay or compensation is to be paid out of public funds or fees of office, and who is related
by either blood or marriage within the second degree to any other public servant making
or voting for such appointment.

Relation by blood within the second degree includes grandparents and grandchildren. Laterally,
it includes brothers and sisters.

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LEGAL REFERENCE: Idaho Code § 33-507, § 18-1359, § 18-1361, § 18-1361A

ADOPTED: Unknown

AMENDED/REVISED:

RATIFIED: August 17, 2009

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